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[Module] PhotoGallery

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    Ryan Thrash Reply #21, 21 years ago
    Quote from: sottwell at Sep 08, 2005, 01:43 PM

    Anyway, the other main issue was the SearchForm snippet; it seems that you can’t have bare input fields (or anything else) in a form, they have to be enclosed in a <div> or something INSIDE the form tags.  So I just added the <div>...</div> tags inside the form tags in the snippet.  Now it’s all nice and valid.
    FYI, for "proper" XHTML semantic correctness you should technically be using fieldset tags for grouping related form fields. However, the goofy legend tag will give you fits cross browser. The new default content I’m working on for TP 3.3 will contain forms made this way.
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      sottwell Reply #22, 21 years ago
      I faked it; I added a bit of code to the snippet (later I’ll adjust it to accept an argument)

         $chunk_main .=    '<div class="EPG2_single_pic">';

// hack to get a first picture showing in slideshow mode
if(!isset($_GET['pic'])) {
    $chunk_main .= '<img class="EPG2_image_large" alt="Slideshow" src="assets/images/startimage.jpg" width="400" height="300" />';
} else {

   $chunk_main .=       '<img class="EPG2_image_large" alt="'.$picture['title'].'" src="assets/modules/epg2/image.php?type=pic_large&id='.$picture['id'].'" />';
}

// end of hack

   $chunk_main .=    '</div>';


      I suppose I should make my "Photo Gallery" menu link be to a weblink, and pass the appropriate parameters in the query string of the weblink.

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        sottwell Reply #23, 21 years ago
        (accidentally posted this in the wrong forum late last night...)

        I was quite pleased with the gallery I created of screenshots of different site designs. Then my partner wasn’t happy with just being able to see a snapshot of a webpage, he wanted to be able click on the thumbnail in the gallery in the top banner of his home page, and switch the home page to that template! So I got a simple javascript stylesheet switcher ( http://www.alistapart.com/articles/alternate/ ), paid a little attention to the names of the images in the gallery so they could be the same as the title in the css stylesheet tags, and made this mod to the link generation code of the thumbnails:

        
// Change link to switch stylesheet
        $chunk_main .=    '<a href="#" 
onclick="setActiveStyleSheet(\''.$picture['title'].'\'); 
return false;"><img class="EPG2_image_thumb" alt="'.$picture['title'].'" src=assets/modules/epg2/image.php?type=pic_thumb&id='.$picture['id'].' /></a>';



        renamed the snippet to SiteGallery, and presto! A row of images of designs that you can click on to actually change the CSS file of the page to match the image.

        This is why I created the 4in1 template. It’s fully loaded for a three-column layout, and I use several duplicated block selection TVs to fill everything, and enable/disable the parts through the CSS using display:none to disable what I don’t want. It makes for a bigger than necessary HTML file since it has everything, but it makes it possible to switch layouts very easily. Fun. Especially useful for switching to a single-column large-print version.

        Next I suppose he’ll want the whole site to be switched. <sigh> more cookies. Well, maybe he won’t think of it and will be happy with what he’s got Wink
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          aNoble Reply #24, 20 years, 11 months ago
          Is there a reason that we haven’t posted this anywhere outside of the Project Team forums? It looks like it could work well for what ScottyDelicious is looking for (http://modxcms.com/forums/index.php/topic,1044.0.html)
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            xwisdom Reply #25, 20 years, 11 months ago
            Adma,

            You’re correct it was only here for testing. Once the new EPG2 code is added in it should be ready for release
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              sottwell Reply #26, 20 years, 10 months ago
              I’m getting ready to install this again on a new 0.9 MODx; is there anything new with it?
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